Saturday, May 11 at 9:00 A.M. in the Class Room is the Land and Probate Class. A person's estate file may hold the answers to many family questions. It often has family names and a listing of the belongings of the deceased which often includes land records. Probate and land records often lead to the names of . . .

family members because land often was passed on to or sold to family members. Land and probate records can also be a good source to the names of the women in the family. Taking the Land and Probate class is a good decision because students learn how and what to search to obtain these records. As research skills increase, it is valuable to know how to look beyond birth, marriage and death and census records. This is a class every researcher should have.